Saturday Night Live plans to take aim at Rob Ford this week, Seth Meyers says

Saturday Night Live hasn’t aired an original episode since Toronto mayor Rob Ford publicly admitted to having smoked crack cocaine (never mind his chaotic city council meeting on Wednesday and all that salty language he used on Thursday), so the late-night NBC mainstay hasn’t yet had the chance to lambaste him. But all that will likely change on Nov. 16, if Seth Meyers has anything to do with it (and, as the show’s head writer, he probably does).

“We’re hoping that by Saturday Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor, is still a story,” Meyers told Live with Kelly and Michael hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan when asked during his Thursday morning appearance on the show whether SNL has any targets this coming weekend. “When a mayor of a major city does crack…”

“I’ve been in drunken stupors, but I’ve never woken up the next day and been like ‘Oh, I did crack,’ ” Meyers responded.

If Ford does in fact make it on this week’s upcoming episode of SNL, which will be hosted by Lady Gaga, it will be far from the first time the Toronto mayor has been made a punchline on late-night TV. Ford has been a mainstay on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show since his confession on Oct. 31 that he smoked crack cocaine, and has been a regular topic on the Colbert Report, Conan, The Tonight Showwith Jay Leno, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon … and pretty much every other late-night talk show: